A scorpion does not look like an animal in need of more firepower. It arrives already armed, with claws at one end and a ...

Physicists are crushing it — hydrogen, that is. Squeezing the chemical element to extremely high pressure transforms it into a metal, a trio of researchers claims. The purported metallic hydrogen ...

Stanford researchers have discovered that, in the complex world of nanotechnology, five heads — ...

I don’t know if you know this already, but science is pretty fucking metal. From chemistry to biology to environmental studies, the world around us and how it operates is host to extremely badass ...

The Terminator series is any metallurgist’s dream. Across all six films, including two good ones, futuristic human-killing robots showcase all the sci-fi possibilities of metal — both resistant ...

Experiments have provided the first direct evidence that electricity seems to flow through 'strange metals' in an unusual liquid-like form. True to form, a "strange metal" quantum material proved ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A new study found that metal can heal itself. On the scale of nanometers, cracks ...

Science fiction and heavy metal rub up against each other in many ways. They’re both implicitly concerned with technology — metal has machine rhythms and electric instruments. They both grapple with ...